George Armour Craig (November 15, 1914 – January 29, 2002) was a long-time professor of English and, at the end of his career, the acting president of Amherst College.
[1] Craig was born on November 15, 1914, in Cleveland, Ohio, where he attended the Hawken School.
During this time, he oversaw the abolition of campus fraternities, following a white paper of a few years earlier that had made the recommendation.
Along with the late Theodore Baird, Craig was instrumental in promoting and sustaining the famous required freshman composition course at Amherst.
[5] One of six teachers honored at the White House in 1980, his former student, the poet Richard Wilbur (Amherst College 1942), said Craig had taught him “not only to be fiercely attentive to texts, but also to watch what we said and wrote.... Armour Craig was forever asking the embarrassing question, ‘What do you mean?’”